Sources and credits

Data sources

Photo credits

All 1252 photographs in the app come from Wikimedia Commons, in the public domain or under CC0 or CC BY, with each licence read from Commons when the photo was downloaded. They were resized and compressed for the app. This list is generated from the app's own credits, the same list as Settings → Photo credits.

Map credit

The map of Italy in the app is drawn from Natural Earth region outlines (1:10m), which are in the public domain.

Typeface

Headings are set in Bodoni Moda, by the Bodoni Moda Project Authors, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (licence). This site serves it itself; nothing is loaded from elsewhere.

What's new

1. 1.0.0: First release, in preparation

   • 20 regions and 341 towns, each with its sights, festivals, food, outdoors and ways to arrive.
   • Explore Italy by photo or on a map you can zoom, each region in its own colour, and swipe through each region’s top highlights.
   • Pick what you like first (art, ancient sites, food and wine, festivals…): the app shows it first, and one tap shows everything.
   • Find places: every place in Italy or in one region, by top highlights, free entry, indoors or outdoors, UNESCO World Heritage and the kind of place.
   • One search for towns, sights, festivals, menu words and phrases, which also understands requests such as somewhere to go on a rainy day or a beach near a town.
   • Search also finds regions, the guides, the emergency numbers, strikes and the rules for visitors, and a sight opens on its own.
   • Discover: towns on I Borghi più belli d’Italia or with a Bandiera arancione, each with a ready-made walk past its places.
   • A ready-made walk in every town whose places make one, on the town’s page and town by town in each ready-made trip.
   • Today in each town: sunrise and sunset, a festival or public holiday that day and the free museum Sunday, also as a home-screen widget.
   • Filter sights by free entry, indoors or outdoors and UNESCO World Heritage, and find places close enough to walk between.
   • Opening hours and accessibility for over 100 sights, linked to each place’s own pages.
   • A sketch map of each town's places, with their distance from the centre.
   • Add a festival with a fixed date to your calendar without giving the app calendar access, and see the festivals and public holidays on each day of your trip.
   • Every festival in a month, across Italy or in one region.
   • Bike & nature: cycling routes, bike hire, trails and parks near each town, with its viewpoints and nature spots.
   • Getting there shows only the ways in that exist, with local train lines, transport strikes, messages to show a taxi driver and towns nearby for a day trip.
   • City cards and public transport day tickets in the bigger towns, each with its issuer's own page.
   • Restricted traffic zones (ZTL) in the larger towns, each with the comune's own page.
   • Roadside help for a breakdown, and a driving guide to ZTL signs, parking lines and motorway tolls.
   • Rules for visitors: EU border registration (EES), travel authorisation (ETIAS) and Venice’s access fee, each with its official page, and what to wear in churches.
   • A guide to the tourist tax many towns charge per night: who collects it and the names it goes by on a bill.
   • Compare two towns side by side: how you arrive, what there is to see, and how far apart they are.
   • Book: where to stay, sight tickets, tours, train tickets and car hire for each town, all in one place.
   • Community: ways to meet other travellers and local cyclists, reviews and travellers’ forums, hidden gems, and corrections you can send us.
   • A trip planner by day, ready-made trips to copy, and trip links you can send.
   • A passport of the towns you checked in to, to share as a picture, a free day of places with no ticket, and a way to suggest your own trip.
   • A town says what now is like there: the sun, the day, your trip. Getting there opens with the answer, tips from travellers sit on the town's page, and a dated trip lists what to check before you go.
   • Back up your trips and saved places to a file, and restore them.
   • A phrasebook, a menu glossary and emergency numbers that work with no signal.
   • Hear a phrase read aloud by an Italian voice installed on your phone, so it works offline.
   • Shortcuts and widgets for your home screen, and trips you can print or save as a PDF.
   • Light and dark appearance, a guided tour of the app, and screens built to work with large text and screen readers.
   • Undo for removals, recently viewed places, and a way to erase everything the app keeps.
   • Eleven languages: English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
   • Where the facts come from: each kind of fact, its source and when it was checked.